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Definition of deerstalker in English:

deerstalker

noun

1A soft cloth cap, originally worn for hunting, with peaks in front and behind and ear flaps which can be tied together over the top.

‘Here you can still buy a deerstalker hat, be fitted for a pinstripe blazer, slip on some sensible footwear, sniff out some musky cologne or get your balding locks tended by a traditional wet-shave barber.’

‘He's wearing a Sherlock Holmeseque half-caped coat and carrying his deerstalker in his hand.’

‘The actor, famous for his handlebar moustache and deerstalker hat, was born and brought up in Barnsley.’

‘Mrs Mungo rang to ask why we didn't get Jack a deerstalker hat.’

‘Behind me, 20 yards to my right, is Raymond - with his baseball cap tilted back on his head, looking rather less the part than me in my borrowed Barbour deerstalker.’

‘He wears plus-fours, lace-up boots, a tie with a picture of a pheasant on it, a game bag slung over his shoulder, a couple of whistles tied around his neck and a battered hat that might once have been described as a deerstalker.’

‘He wore his deerstalker, and a dirty, dun mackintosh, and a bedraggled tie with stripes.’

‘Wearing a deerstalker hat and carrying an oversized magnifying glass she trampled through the crime scene destroying all kinds of forensic evidence.’

‘He ensured that Jeremy Brett donned the deerstalker, and his electrifying performances guaranteed that for millions he became the television Sherlock Holmes.’

‘It's absurd to complain that Holmes in cinema doesn't conform to the original, or to grumble that, in the 12 films Rathbone and Bruce made for Universal, he was more likely to be wearing a fedora than a deerstalker.’

‘I'm surprised you're not wearing a deerstalker.’

‘A deerstalker, Petrowski loved the outdoors and would later pass his knowledge on to young police cadets training in Wellington.’

‘The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.’